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The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies,
www.pipss.org
Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, Chief Editor, is pleased to inform you that a book based on the first issue of pipss.org is now
available for purchase at Ibidem-Verlag, Hannover, Germany.

Francoise Dauce and Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (Eds)
Dedovshchina in the Post-Soviet Military. Hazing of
Russian Army
Conscripts
in a Comparative Perspective
With a foreword by Dale Herspring
308 p., Paperback, 29,90 Euros
ISBN 3-89821-616-0

In contemporary armies, violence among soldiers seems
to be a universal
phenomenon found in both professional and drafted
armies.However, the
comparison of violent practices in various armies
around the world
allows us

to identify specific features linked to those
countries' sociological,
political or anthropological contexts. Hazing, for
example, seems to be
more

violent in the armies of transitional societies
(Russia, Eastern
Europe,
Latin America), where social tensions encountered by
citizens in their
daily

lives are carried over to, and sometimes intensified
in, the military.
The
comparison of Russian dedovshchina with the situation
in other
countries
makes it possible to identify universal, transitional
and national
characteristics of military violence.

Contents:

- Konstantin Bannikov on the consequences of the
spread throughout
society
of archaic violence produced by the Russian army;
- Anna Colin Lebedev on the perception of military
violence in Russian
society;
- Anton Oleynik on informal relationships among
prisoners and
conscripts;
- Kirill Podrabinek on the reasons of the prevalence
of dedovshchina
in the

post-Soviet context;
- Igor Obraztsov on the historical roots of
dedovshchina;
- Vadim Mikhailin on the role of language in the
military milieu;
- Julie Elkner on the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers;
- Bakit Katchekeyev on hazing in the Kyrgyz army;
- Irakli Sesiashvili on hazing in the Georgian army;
- Hana Cervinkova on hazing in the Czech army;
- James Wither on bullying in the British army;
- Eduardo Paes-Machado & Carlos Linhares de
Albuquerque on hazing in
the
Brazilian police;
- Joris Van Bladel on dedovshchina and the
all-volunteer force.

The editors:

Francoise Dauce, PhD (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de
Paris), is
Lecture of
Soviet History and Russian Politics at Blaise Pascal
University in
Clermont-Ferrand. Her papers have appeared in Critique
Internationale,
Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest and Herodote. She is the
author of
L'Etat,
l'armee et le citoyen en Russie post-sovietique
(Paris: L'Harmattan
2001).

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, PhD (University of
Nanterre-Paris X), is
editor-in-chief of The Journal of Power Institutions
in Post-Soviet
Societies (http//:www.pipss.org). Her papers have
appeared in Problemes
Politiques et Sociaux, Cultures & Conflits and
Courrier des Pays de
l'Est.
She co-authored, with A. Toumarkine, Geopolitique de
la mer Noire:
Turquie
et pays de l'ex-URSS (Paris: Karthala 2000).

The foreword author:

Dr. Dale Herspring is Professor of Political Science
at Kansas State
University and member of the Council of Foreign
Relations.

To order the book:

Please fax to: 0511 / 262 2201 (+49 511 262 2201)

Or mail to:

ibidem-Verlag
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D-30457 Hannove
Germany

Or send an e-mail: ibidem@ibidem-verlag.de

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